engine-timing

Updated: May 13, 2025

One of the great inventions of the War was the synchronisation of engine-timing and machine gun, which rendered it possible to fire through the blades of a propeller without damaging them, though the growing efficiency of the aeroplane as a whole and of its armament is a thing to marvel at on looking back and considering what was actually accomplished.

W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) Marsh - A History of Aeronautics